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Our client is a premier non-profit in the education space. Its mission is to enlist the nation's most promising future leaders in the movement to eliminate educational inequality. Embarking on a stage of significant growth, the organization is looking for a team of highly talented individuals to help shape both the future of the organization and the education landscape.

Our client’s Miami-Dade location is playing a vital role in education reform in South Florida. Entering the sixth year placing corps members in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, almost 100 corps members teach in K-12 classrooms throughout the county, and nearly as many alumni continue to advocate for educational equity through their roles in a variety of sectors across the region. By 2010, our client aims to have doubled the number of incoming corps members from 2007, fueling Miami-Dade’s education reform efforts both in the classroom and beyond. To support this ambitious growth and expanded impact, the Miami-Dade location will raise approximately $3 million in the year 2010, up from $650,000 currently.

Our client is seeking an Executive Director to continue this growth and to maximize our client’s impact in Miami-Dade by developing, meeting and exceeding ambitious goals. The Executive Director will work to empower her/his corps members and alumni as a force for short-term and long-term change while growing a sustainable base of financial, community, and district awareness and support. The individual who assumes this leadership role will manage a regional staff of 5 while working with a local board to accomplish these goals. The Executive Director will report to a Vice President of Regional Operations.

Responsibilities include:

• Shape overall vision for our client in Miami-Dade

  • Chart the course to maximize our impact and evolve our plan as necessary given changes in the environment and internally
  • Ensure we make decisions with an eye to maximizing our long-term impact

• Engage key stakeholders

  • Grow a sustainable, diversified local funding base that will include district and possibly city and state money; gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations; and an annual benefit dinner
  • Manage relationships within our partner school districts to inform our strategic plan and ensure sustainability
  • Manage relationships and communications with corps members, alumni and staff members across teams to build a strong culture and inform our plans
  • Find and recruit new talent for our local and national organization

• Build our organizational capacity

  • Seek new board members who have the influence and networks necessary to support the effort to reach our goals
  • Ensure we maximize each board member’s potential contributions and that the group as a whole is strong
  • Ensure we have the talent we need in senior positions
  • Ensure we set annual goals that are in line with our strategic plan and at the right intersection of ambitious and attainable
  • Ensure direct reports are maximizing their individual potential as organizational leaders, with explicit professional development priorities
  • Build a strong culture based on our core values and reflective of our commitment to diversity

• Maximize impact of corps members and alumni

  • Oversee the program continuum of matriculation, placement, orientation and ongoing professional development
  • Manage the Managing Director of Program who leads a team of program directors to ensure corps members are making significant academic gains with their students
  • Develop a strategy to maximize the impact of our alumni in the region
  • Engage 50% of our alumni to give time or money

• Ensure a diverse and sustainable funding base

  • Manage a development team that is charged to grow our local funding base from $650,000 to $3 million by 2010
  • Build energy around a local Sponsor A Teacher Campaign that has the potential to engage influential individuals in our mission while generating an important revenue stream
  • Develop and evolve a strategy for maintaining and growing our public support, from district, city and state sources
  • Build a corporate partnership program
  • Cultivate and maximize relationships with foundation and corporate grantmakers

• Grow overall visibility

  • Maximize the opportunity to deliver external speeches across the city
  • Work effectively with local media outlets and national communications team to elevate our presence in the media

• Ensure long-term sustainability

  • Build the staff capacity and infrastructure necessary to sustain scale
  • Build political capital to ensure our client becomes part of the social and educational fabric of the city

Education and Experience

• Proven ability to set an inspiring vision and motivate others to reach ambitious goals in support of that vision;
• Record of results leading varied constituents to achieve multiple goals
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Corps member experience preferred, but not required
• Minimum of 2 years experience required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong overall leadership
• Exceptional strategic thinking, communications, and relationship-building skills;
• Goal orientation;
• Ability to operate and thrive in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment; and
• Commitment to our mission.

• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience.

• Result-oriented and flexible culture